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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Blooks Exhibition On NOW at Bard College

Public Exhibition

Blooks: The Art of Books That Aren't

Charles P. Stevenson Library. Bard College.

Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

August 23-October 30, 2016

(second floor exhibition closes on October 14)

From January 27 through March 12, 2016 at the Grolier
Club in New York City, I curated the first exhibition of my collection of
blooks, which included over 200 book-shaped objects representing over 250 years
of their development from many countries. As a part-time resident of Tivoli,
New York, I am aware of the important and active role that Bard College has in
its community and am pleased to participate in its artistic and scholarly
dialogue by presenting a segment of the original Grolier Club exhibition at the
Stevenson Library. I hope that some of you will get the chance to visit the exhibition before it closes next month. Below is a list of objects on view. Most are illustrated in my book.

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About Me

Mindell Dubansky is head of the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation, Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She writes on the book arts, particularly in the areas of 19th century publisher’s bindings, hand papermaking and bookbinding.
Having had the fortune to be helplessly and irreversibly drawn to a life among books, Ms. Dubansky has utilized her knowledge and love of the physical book to gather and describe an extensive group of international book-shaped objects from the Medieval Era to today. As a group, these objects illustrate the abiding human need to reflect values and emotions through creating and associating with books. Currently, she is writing a survey of book-shaped objects and is planning a small exhibition at Vassar College Art Library in 2015 and a member's exhibition at the Grolier Club upon completion of her book.
If you are interested in 19th century decorated bookbindings, or women's, book or design history, please have a look at my blog on Alice C. Morse (http://alicemorse.blogspot.com).